Acropora abrolhensis Most Wanted
This is an awesome tourquoise colored staghorn stony coral. Polyps
are bushy, extend during the day. Under strong halides the polyps developed
the tourquoise color. Branch tips are purple/tourquoise. Colonies were rarely
exported and only shipped from one island group. The Florida Islands near
Guadacanal in the Solomons were the only known place that exported this
amazing coral. The collector stopped collecting coral from that area in late
1998. The last individuals that we knew who possessed this coral were Nelson
Seeley of California and Clayton Romi of California. Clayton was the last
person farming it. Some fragments were known to have been distributed
through DE from 1996 to 1998 as Steve Tyree was also farmig this coral for
awhile. If anyone has recieved a fragment of this rare staghorn and
still has living sections of it, please contact us here at reeffarmers.com.
Update 10/25/00 - I just returned from the GARF Coral Farming Seminar 2000. It
appears that GARF has grown quite a few of these awesome abrolhensis corals
from a fragment they initially recieved from DE(Steve Tyree) back in 1998. We
will hopefully have some fragments of this awesome coral distributed through
Reeffarmers.com some time next year (2001). Also, the initial species ID of
abrolhensis is probably incorrect. The abrolhensis actually has a tubular corallite
while the coral we are working with is more scaly. Its almost like a tuorquoise/blue
Staghorn Acropora millepora with medium thick branches. We will continue research
and hopefully get a more accurate species ID soon.
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